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Liberate your Facebook contacts' email addresses.
14 points by netaddict on Nov 11, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments
Create dummy yahoo account. Log in to it.

Navigate to address.yahoo.com

Navigate to Tools -> Import

Select Facebook icon

Grant permission to import from FB to Yahoo

After import, navigate to Tools-> Export

Source: reddit user sgibson12



Does this mean Yahoo gets access to all your friends' email addresses?

Or is that a moot point since they are likely drinking from the Facebook data firehose already?


My money's on "moot point".


Did this ever work? I can't see how it wouldn't be using the public Facebook API, which doesn't normally include contact's email (not even your own email).


exactly what i was wondering. the permissions combination makes no sense. perhaps this was implemented by FB without the API?


Honestly, who cares?


Plugged already?

Congratulations! 0 new contacts imported


It is working intermittently. Apparently this works with hotmail as well because Facebook has a tie up with Microsoft.

http://blog.acousticrenditions.com/2010/01/14/export-faceboo...


Worked fine for me!




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